rivoli Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 very briefly. this is the machine i just bought: 2 xeon 2400 1 GB DDR ECC reg. Quadro4 750XGL 128 i'm currently using Max 5 and either Brazil or Illustrate as renderes. well, i'd like to know if there is anything i can do to set up the system to get the best performances from the whole stuff. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 I hope that is a licensed version of Brazil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 yeah, in the pc's start-up bios, change the chip setting to hyper threading. this isn't standard, so you'll have to do it manually. this will speed things up a further 15 - 20 % Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Strat, Engage ht just for xp or will it work for windows 2000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivoli Posted May 22, 2003 Author Share Posted May 22, 2003 thanks a lot strat, i already enabled the HT. i was just wondering if there was anything else to do. P.S. i'm still using the old public test version of brazil actually. [ May 22, 2003, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: rivoli ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex18_ph Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 Using the same system specs as you have... i had a bit of a slow down when you enable Nvida desktop manager... so be sure its off. although i have also a bit of problem when enabling radiosity on viz4 my system says "assertion failure" . what i do is i click on the ignore botton then everything goes on back to normal. problem is i cant use network rendering cause the system halts when it loads any file with radiosity solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivoli Posted May 23, 2003 Author Share Posted May 23, 2003 thanks, i will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 sawyer - yes, both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 sawyer+STRAT- Not both. Only windows 2000 server works with HT. Cause win2k has a limitation on the processor count (2).. So under win2k it slows the system down.. (its somewhere in a post from greg) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 ahh, my bad. sorry, i assumed both. altho my xeon is on winXP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 HT on either under win2k server, windows 2003 server, or Windows XP professional. If you turn it on under Windows 2000 Professional SP2, your performance is shot to hell. If you " " SP3 it'll just ignore the logical cpu's. Also make sure to turn SSE ON under the max5 render dialog if your using the default render. Its disabled by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivoli Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 thanks for the advice Greg, i didn't know the SSE option. actualy i didn't know anything at all about SSE before reading your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedesco Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 I made a few tests, and with or without SSE the rendering time is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Knourek Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 Im guessing the SSE performance will be scene dependant. -dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpico Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 What is your experience going from the regular desktop systems that use P4 chips or AMD to a dual Xeon system? Do you see any performance using regular apps or just games and other high end apps? Trying to build something and figure price, and I was going to just build another system... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 Going to a dual processor system generally effects.... 1) Multi-tasking 2) Rendering 3) Any application which allows for multithreading. (Photoshop for example) If you do any of these activities, you'll find a dual processor system addictive, and hard to give up. One of the best combinations I've ever worked at is a dual processor machine, on a dual monitor setup. Everything is fluid and quick, regardless of how many apps are open, or what your doing. You can even assign processors manually, allowing rendering to take place on cpu 2, while you continue working on other activities on cpu 1. Its like two computers in one box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpico Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 Wow Greg, exactly what I wanted to hear. Next system will be a dually. Two is always better than one, right?! I'll start doing my research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Knourek Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Just make sure that you get something like XP Pro so you can take full advantage of the Logical processors. -dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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